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The Akan (/ ˈ æ k æ n /) people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa. The Akan speak languages within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family . [ 2 ]
The Akan people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in western Africa. They have as many as more than twenty clans groups within the community. [1] list of the clans of Akan people include: [2] [3]
The Bono, also called the Brong and the Abron, are an Akan people of West Africa. Bonos are normally tagged Akan piesie or Akandifo of which Akan is a derivative name. Bono is the genesis and cradle of Akans. [1] Bono is one of the largest ethnic group of Akan and are matrilineal people. [2] [3] The Bono people speak the Bono Twi. [4]
The modern Mfantsefo or Fante ("Fanti" is an older spelling) confederacy is a combination of Akan people and aboriginal Guan people. The Fante people are mainly located in the Central [1] and Western regions [2] of Ghana, occupying the forest and coastal areas. Their land stretches from the eastern part of western region in the west to Gomoa in ...
In many parts of West Africa, there is an old chieftaincy tradition, and the Akan people have developed their own hierarchy, which exists alongside the democratic structure of the country. The Akan word for the ruler, or one of his various courtiers, is "Nana" (English pronunciation / ˈ n æ n ə /). In colonial times, Europeans translated it ...
The list of Akan people includes notable individuals of Akan meta-ethnicity and ancestry; the Akan people who are also referred to as (Akan: Akanfo) are a meta-ethnicity and Potou–Tano Kwa ethno-linguistic group that are indigenously located on the Ashantiland peninsula near the equator precisely at the "centre of the Earth".
The Anufo or Chakosi are an Akan people who live in the Dapaong and (Sansanné-)Mango areas of Togo, as well as in Ghana. [1] They trace their origin to a place called Anou or Ano on the Komoé River in the Ivory Coast. [1] [2] Thus, they refer to themselves Anoufou "people of Anu". [1]
Odomankoma's link to vultures is expressed in the Akan maxim: "Odomankoma a oboadee, ne kyeneboa ne opete", meaning the animal that symbolizes Odomankoma who created the world is the vulture. [14] The spider connotation comes the belief by the Akan that spiders are the wisest of all animals, and it was possibly Ananse that advised Odomankoma to ...